Blogs / July 2011
August 2011 | June 2011-
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Tom Beard jumps the shark!
- The Wellingtonista
- (Just kidding) Like parents – or how we imagine them to be — we are immensely proud when one of our snotty brats achieves recognition for the things at which they excel.
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Post show look at: ‘Awhi Tapu’ and ‘An Oak Tree’
- The Wellingtonista
- ‘Awhi Tapu’ and ‘An Oak Tree’ are on until the end of the week.
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Preview: 2011 Film Festival
- The Wellingtonista
- Despite the shocking and inexplicable decision to omit Patrick Keiller’s Robinson in Ruins from this year’s Film Festival (a disaster applicable only to me I think) the actual line-up is as good as everyone says.
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The semi-naked truth: Strip clubs in Wellington
- The Wellingtonista
- So, you want to see some breasts.
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Yesterday’s Solution
- Sustainable Wellington Transport
- In 2011, you would think two considerations would be central to transport planning; the need to reduce carbon emissions and dependence on oil. Think again… The New Zealand Transport Agency has released for consultation its scheme for the inner city section (Cobham Drive to Buckle St) of its grand Levin to Wellington Airport superhighway. What the scheme amounts to is a road building extravaganza that reeks of the 1960s and 1970s. The salient point about NZTA’s consultation is that it offers no choice. The key projects including a flyover at the Basin Reserve and a second Mt Victoria Tunnel are a fait accompli. So the public is not given any meaningful options, such as the public transport alternative.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Where would you take an odd tourist?
- The Wellingtonista
- We occasionally get requests from people who see us as being experts on Wellington, and it’s true, we are.
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Would you like Grandstands with that?
- Eye of the Fish
- While the NZTA are serving up orders of Big Mac and Fries with a bit of extra Grandstand on the side, I thought we might just have a quick look at whether they are serving up a just dessert. Now, call me a cynical old fish, but I think that graphic (please note: Not supplied [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Getting social while someone else does the cooking
- The Wellingtonista
- On Monday night, some of the Wellingtonista went along to the launch of Social Cooking, a new cooking school based in Herd Street, so this fly tagged along too, buzzing overhead.
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Grandstanding
- Eye of the Fish
- We’d heard rumours at the Fish HQ of a proposed sweetener deal of a Grandstand, but have been caught off the hop by this – I didn’t think it was going to surface just yet. It is a curious proposal – and all seems rather Fishy to me. In a country notorious for its distain for, and freedom from corruption, is this the first openly blatant case of bribery on a large scale?
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The bookworms be out in force
- The Wellingtonista
- One rather delightful advantage of the Rugby World Cup is the arrival of the Downtown Community Ministry book fair in July, 2 months ahead of it’s normal timing.
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No Way. Yes, Way.
- The Wellingtonista
- Shot in Auckland and put together in Miramarwood, “The Warrior’s Way” is an NZ/South Korea/US East-West samurai-cowboy action-fx tongue-in-cheek cheese-fest mash-up.
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Miramar, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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A Viable Arch Centre Alternative?
- Eye of the Fish
- We’re part of the way through the public “consultation” phase of the NZTA schemes for “improvements” around the Basin Reserve, and so far we’ve only heard one side of the story. For whatever reasons, political, Machiavellian, or incompetence, only the “two options” have been proffered to the public by the roading lobby. That’s a real [...]
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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The power of Voodoo (who do?)
- The Wellingtonista
- When we talked about the Rapture, we mentioned Voodoo Restaurant on Manners Street in brief, but that really wasn’t enough. Seeing it’s got the Grabone treatment today (hurry! Only three hours left!), we do need to tell you just how damn delicious Voodoo is.
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Boulevards
- Eye of the Fish
- After a couple of posts looking at the proposed concretisation of the car’s dominance over nature, with a 6 lane highway racing through Haitaitai and an overpass through / over / around the Basin Reserve, all courtesy of the NZTA, perhaps it is time to look at somebody else’s vision for the streets of Wellington. Why don’t we have a look at this image, number 3 in the series, on Boulevards.
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Basin Reserve, Dufferin Street, Mount Victoria, Wellington, Wellington City, Wellington, 6021, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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Towards Another (Big Bang) Theory
- The Wellingtonista
- Untitled Explosion #8LF, 2007 (Chromogenic print, 381 x 508 mm) The images of exploding fuel from Geoffrey H.
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Other side of the Mountain
- Eye of the Fish
- Following on from the previous post about the goings on around the Basin, we’re pleased to bring to you some of the plans for the other side of Mt Vic – the flip side of the coin, if you will.
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Hataitai, Wellington, New Zealand (OpenStreetMap)
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